We’re excited to introduce a new Alexa Skills training course called How to Build a Multimodal Alexa Skill. This self-paced course is free and available to anyone ready to build skills using Alexa Presentation Language (APL).

Today, we are excited to announce that you can start building skills using Alexa Presentation Language (APL) on the Echo Dot with clock, one of Amazon’s newest Echo devices. With this new capability, APL can be used to build visual experiences on a new class of devices with character-based displays.

We’re excited to announce the General Availability of Natural Language Understanding (NLU) Evaluation Tool and Utterance Conflict Detection. We are also excited to announce the Get Metrics API, now in Beta.

We're excited to introduce the Alexa Education Skill API (Preview), a new set of interfaces that allow Education Technology (Ed Tech) developers to build voice experiences for parents and students 13 and older.